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For uncopyrighted material I find the torrent client available at www.bitcomet.com unbeatable...
tricky69 said:
ok cool, but whats a torent ?
You know with Kazza loads of people had a file, you searched and downloaded a little bit of the file from loads of different people around the world?
With torrents, the .torrent file is a list of people who have the file, the client then interrogates this file and starts downloading the file you have searched for.
www.isohunt.com is the place to do the searching, you click on the result, click on download torrent and open that .torrent file in BitComet (which should happen automatically if the file association was created on install, which it should be)
If you're willing to pay a little and spend a few minutes getting over the learning curve, downloading binaries from newsgroups is incredible.
I've used them all - torrents, KaZaa, eMule etc - and can say newsgroup binaries totally whoops the lot into oblivion. I can get virtually anything I want at any time and max my bandwidth on demand, with no need to upload anything.
I've used them all - torrents, KaZaa, eMule etc - and can say newsgroup binaries totally whoops the lot into oblivion. I can get virtually anything I want at any time and max my bandwidth on demand, with no need to upload anything.
-DeaDLocK- said:
If you're willing to pay a little and spend a few minutes getting over the learning curve, downloading binaries from newsgroups is incredible.
I've used them all - torrents, KaZaa, eMule etc - and can say newsgroup binaries totally whoops the lot into oblivion. I can get virtually anything I want at any time and max my bandwidth on demand, with no need to upload anything.
I've used them all - torrents, KaZaa, eMule etc - and can say newsgroup binaries totally whoops the lot into oblivion. I can get virtually anything I want at any time and max my bandwidth on demand, with no need to upload anything.
sound very good mate, whats the best way to get started ??
tricky69 said:
-DeaDLocK- said:
If you're willing to pay a little and spend a few minutes getting over the learning curve, downloading binaries from newsgroups is incredible.
I've used them all - torrents, KaZaa, eMule etc - and can say newsgroup binaries totally whoops the lot into oblivion. I can get virtually anything I want at any time and max my bandwidth on demand, with no need to upload anything.
I've used them all - torrents, KaZaa, eMule etc - and can say newsgroup binaries totally whoops the lot into oblivion. I can get virtually anything I want at any time and max my bandwidth on demand, with no need to upload anything.
sound very good mate, whats the best way to get started ??
Get a usenet ("news"
client. Outlook distress is one that comes free with Windows, but is worth exactly what you pay for it and will fall over immediately it hits something called Yenc, requiring 3rd party addons to cope. www.forteinc.com will find you a better client, others may be able to recommend different ones (Forte Agent is nice for text newsgroups, can't speak for it's usefulness for binary groups). You will then need a usenet news server to connect to, your ISP will likely have one but given the amount of disk space required to retain a full feed for even one day it will either be outsourced or retention and completion will be abysmal as only the biggest ISPs can afford to run their own binary news server. Therefore you may need to look at paying an independent such as giganews, if binaries are your thing. You will probably need a programs called winrar and smartpar somewhere along the way as well to combat incomplete files on your news server. Google them both, you will find them easily.
Dis man he speek de troof.
A look at www.newsreaders.com/ would be educational, especially www.newsreaders.com/binaries/index.html
Binaries are usually posted to Usenet in uuencoded chunks, so you need to stick them back together and uudecode them. Some newsreaders will do this by themselves, or if you have perl, then there's a "passive newsreader" called "aub" (Assemble Usenet Binaries) which will automatically search given newsgroups for files called "Part x/y" (or any other of a dozen similar styles of name; "Part x of y" and so on) download the chunks, reassemble them and uudecode the results. It caches the chunks, so even if the file is posted over the course of a week, it'll still find all the bits.
A look at www.newsreaders.com/ would be educational, especially www.newsreaders.com/binaries/index.html
Binaries are usually posted to Usenet in uuencoded chunks, so you need to stick them back together and uudecode them. Some newsreaders will do this by themselves, or if you have perl, then there's a "passive newsreader" called "aub" (Assemble Usenet Binaries) which will automatically search given newsgroups for files called "Part x/y" (or any other of a dozen similar styles of name; "Part x of y" and so on) download the chunks, reassemble them and uudecode the results. It caches the chunks, so even if the file is posted over the course of a week, it'll still find all the bits.
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